The official website for the Atom the Beginning anime series has updated with the cast details and premiere date for the series. The series will debut on Saturday, April 15 at 11:00 P.M. JPST on NHK and will later be available on Amazon Prime Japan starting at 1:30 A.M. JPST on Sunday, April 16. Atom the Beginning will be featured on a stage show event that will be held at AnimeJapan 2017 in Tokyo on March 26. The show will feature Nakumura, Inoue, Sakurai, Komatsu, and Sakura. The series takes place in Japan 30 years before the events of Astro Boy. In order to combat the dangers of the worldRead More

Tezuka Productions has recently opened an official website for the anime adaptation for the Atom the Beginning manga series. The website revealed the first trailer for the anime series. The series will launch in Japan in 2017. The promo video features the tagline “, This is a previously untold ‘episode zero’ story leading up to the birth of Astro Boy.” ANN provided a translation for the text featured in the trailer. Text: Original Concept: Osamu Tezuka Text: Project Planning Collaboration & Supervision: Makoto Tezuka Concept Works: Masami Yuuki Manga: Tetsuro Kasahara Text: Artificial IntelligenceRead More